Dhaka, Feb. 26 -- Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday lambasted businessmen for "lopsided talks" saying while one group is in favour of lowering taxes the other group is opposed to it.

"You know the businesses very well. I know them even better. They sometimes speak one-sidedly. I have to take decisions considering multiple factors," he said replying to a query over businessmen's claims of unavailability of dollars to open letters of credit.

He was talking to newsmen after a meeting of the Advisers' Council Committee on Government Purchase at the Bangladesh secretariat.

The adviser said that there is no crisis of dollars on the market. "Imports have increased and so have exports." In response to another question, he said the...