Chandigarh, July 4 -- Cracks in the Punjab Congress widened on Friday after a section of leaders, including current and former legislators, met at the house of former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi demanding that he be made the state party chief and the party's central leadership rethink an organisational reshuffle it announced earlier this week . Parallelly, a meeting between Gurdaspur Congress MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Union home minister Amit Shah in Delhi triggered widespread speculation, though both Randhawa and national-level Congress leaders said it was over security issues. Assembly elections are due in the Aam Aadmi Party-ruled state next year. Randhawa and Channi, currently the MP from Jalandhar, were made chairs of two of the new election-related committees announced by the party high command on Wednesday. But the reshuffle retained Amarinder Singh Raja Warring as the Punjab Congress president and Partap Singh Bajwa as the leader of opposition. On Friday, around 50 Congress leaders, including four sitting MLAs, 18 former MLAs and former ministers, gathered at Channi's residence in Chamkaur Sahib. The meeting ended with a unanimous demand that the All India Congress Committee (AICC) reconsider its recent organisational appointments, particularly the decision to keep Warring, leaders who were present said. Addressing reporters after the meeting, senior MLA Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa rejected suggestions of a rebellion but acknowledged resentment within the party. Raja Warring didn't immediately respond to HT's calls and messages. P2...