Lucknow, Dec. 11 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday appeared to indicate that the Samajwadi Party's defeat in the Rampur Sadar assembly bypoll in Uttar Pradesh was due to planned low voting on the seat represented by SP veteran Azam Khan before his disqualification.

In a tweet in Hindi, Mayawati said, "The SP won the bypolls held on Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, but it lost for the first time on the seat held by Azam Khan in the assembly by-election due to planned low voting."

Mayawati said there is a lot of discussion that the SP candidate's defeat was the result of "collusion" between the SP and the BJP.

In another tweet, she said, "The Muslim community needs to think and understand this so that in the upcoming election...