The Aam Aadmi Party is set to take over the government of India's sprawling capital city, Delhi.
The convener of the party, Arvind Kejriwal, on Monday met Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung to stake claim to form a government in the national capital, reports Hindustan Times.
"I told him that the AAP is ready to form government. He told me that he will send the proposal to the President and will get back after his direction," Kejriwal said.
"We were called by the Lieutenant Governor to discuss government formation on December 14. We had sought time to take a decision as ours is a party of common people and we want to their views," said Kejriwal after the two-hour meeting of the political affairs committee.
The date for the swearing-in ceremony would be decided after directions from the President and Ramlila Maidan would be the venue, he said.
He added that the AAP's 28 MLAs will take outside support of Congress' eight MLAs to form the government.
"We got responses from the citizens through website, phone calls, SMS and by holding public meetings and most of them favoured government formation by AAP," Kejriwal said at AAP's office at Kausambi in Ghaziabad.
Kerjiwal, who called the party's victory a "historic win", said initially he would not form a minority government.
BJP accused the AAP of "betraying the people of Delhi" after the party's decision to form a minority government with outside support of the Congress.
"The AAP fought the election on the anti-corruption plank and now they have taken support from a party that has been completely rejected by the people of Delhi. This proves that AAP is hungry for power," Harsh Vardhan said.
"This is a betrayal of the wishes of the people of Delhi," he added.
The AamAdmi (Common Man) party stunned political analysts and established parties when it won 28 out of 70 seats in local assembly elections in Delhi this month.
Later this week, its convener, Arvind Kejriwal, will be sworn in as chief minister of the city of 15 million people.
Kejriwal, 45, beat the former chief minister of the city, a veteran of the ruling Congress party who had dismissed the AAP's challenge as "not even on our radar" when it was founded a year ago. Congress was wiped out in the poll, reduced to eight seats.
Almost all of the candidates of the AAP were political novices, including a rickshaw driver, a lawyer and a TV actor.
Their key pledge was to clean up politics and the endemic graft that has crippled the provision of public service for the many millions who cannot afford to pay for private healthcare, schooling or basics such as water.
The party's message and symbol – a broom – proved popular with urban voters also struggling with runaway inflation, chronic youth underemployment and slowing economic growth.