In a sudden U-turn over its stand of not accepting anything short of the 1976-77 India Gandhi policy for regularisation of unauthorised colonies in the Capital, the Sheila Dikshit Government in Delhi and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre are now preparing the ground for levy of "penal and development'' charges on lakhs of residents of such colonies in the Capital. The Congress party had promised in its manifesto for the last Delhi Assembly and Lok Sabha polls that it would not accept anything short of the 1976-77 policy for regularisation of unauthorised colonies. Interestingly, the Sheila Dikshit Government had summoned a special session of the Delhi Assembly on July 27, 2000, to protest against the decision of the then NDA Government of imposing penalty and development charges for regularisation of 1,071 unauthorised colonies forcing the Union Government to put the decision on hold. However, the last few months have been quite interesting, as both the Sheila Dikshit Government and the Union Urban Development Ministry have joined hands to pursue what had been proposed by the previous NDA Government but with some dilution. "They seem to have forgotten Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and their commitment to welfare of such sections of society," a senior Congress leader stated today.