As many as 18 students from Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand and Delhi were living in the hostel as a family. Some of them study in DU while others do the preparations for the civil services, told Kamlesh who himself is a visually impaired person and worked as the caretaker of the hostel for years.

A student of the hostel told in the condition of anonymity that role of the BJP councillor raises serious doubts. In a veiled reference to the BJP leader, he said, “you can understand who is playing the game. It is mentioned in the document released by the DDA.”

Another student who also did not wish to be named said that the BJP leader wrote letter to the DDA advising the demolition after some residents raised the issue of alleged encroachment.

After criticism from all corners the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has offered a temporary accommodation for occupants in a nearby park in makeshift tents but the visually impaired students want a permanent house.

“We demand a hostel for hostel. All of us have been left in limbo. We are forced to sleep in the open in such a freezing weather. An official from the DDA came and requested us to relocate in different shelter houses but we refused. Then they offered us to shift in a marriage hall but when we asked a written agreement, they back tracked. We want to live together,” said Kamlesh while saying that if their demands are not made they would protest in front of PM’s residence.

Demanding a probe in to the matter, Swaraj India's Delhi chief Anupam said, “Visually impaired people are interdependent and have a unique bonding when they have spent 17 years together. Shifting these blind students, whose hostel was demolished by DDA, to different places will be an injustice as it could debar them from community life.”

AAP MLA Jarnail Singh was quoted as saying, “I don’t understand why the DDA has done such an insensitive thing, that too at a time when winter is at its peak. They had not followed protocol as notices were not issued before demolishing.”