India, Jan. 22 -- Mumbai's next mayor is set to be a woman from the General category, as per a lottery held on Thursday amid the opposition's allegations that the procedure was "fixed" to suit the state's ruling parties BJP and Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena.

Former CM Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) raised objections to the process and alleged that the reservation was rigged, HT has reported. The Sena-UBT had hoped that the post would be reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST), as both eligible candidates in that category belonged to Uddhav Thackeray's party.

In Maharashtra, mayors are elected by the corporators, and the eligibility is decided by a reservation by a draw-based system. Before the political parties name their candidates, the cat...