'I uttered an expletive and lunged at the person. It was an unfortunate response and one which I deeply regret. Whatever the provocation, there is no excuse for me to have got into a scuffle.'
In response to the various charges over the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked the trust motion in Parliament on July 22, the editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN responds by means of a statement on the channel's purported role.