There has barely been a peep otherwise in the UK.

It's great to see that the BBC is making the effort to cover the Indian elections more extensively. India is, after all, the biggest democracy in the world.

However it's sad to see that there's no comparable Europe-wide coverage of the European Elections this year, despite the fact that the UK electorate will return MEPs to the European Parliament.

I think this is a damage limitation exercise, so the Labour Party can claim "we may have come fifth in the Euro elections, but at least we beat the BNP into running sixth".

I fear the expenses scandal may take up all the political oxygen and leave the Euro elections with even less visibility than normal.