According to Shankar, the NGT committee is “biased and unfair.” AOL has gone to the extent of claiming that the seven-member expert committee “was not scientific”. Sri Sri contends that the international fete has not done any damage to the Yamuna floodplains and if there has been any damage to the area, it’s not AOL who should be penalised, but the government agencies who allowed them to the hold the festival in the first place.