MUMBAI, July 6 -- Amid speculation over attempts by the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena to engineer defections from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has convened a meeting of all party legislators at his Bandra residence, Matoshree, on Tuesday evening. The meeting came weeks after six rebel MPs from the Thackeray camp joined the Shinde-led Shiv Sena, with ministers including Sanjay Shirsat repeatedly claiming that more leaders from the Uddhav camp are likely to switch sides. The political buzz intensified on Sunday after Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut alleged that Congress MLC Dhiraj Lingade, elected from the Amravati Graduates' constituency, was offered Rs.20 crore to defect. Raut, however, did not identify the party that had allegedly made the offer. The allegation gained traction after Lingade, who was earlier with the Shiv Sena before joining the Congress, posted a photograph with Ahir following his election as deputy chairperson. "You are poaching party workers, MPs and MLAs. According to my information, Rs.20 crore were offered to legislator Lingade. In his weekly column in Saamana, Raut also referred Shinde's recent hospitalisation and drew a parallel with Russian author Leo Tolstoy's famous short story 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?', in which a man spends his life greedily trying to acquire more land, only to realise at his death that he ultimately needs just six feet of earth for burial. "Shinde has been running like that old man from Tolstoy's story, but Narendra Modi and Amit Shah will not give him six feet of land when Shinde collapses," Raut wrote....