The Congress on Friday showed a few flashes of resistance amid an Aam Aadmi Party wave in the urban local body elections in Punjab even as the results are likely to deepen the faultlines within the Opposition party and may trigger some changes in state leadership in the run up to the 2027 Assembly elections . Former chief minister and Jalandhar MP Charanjit Singh Channi, who is pushing for a change within the state unit and is eyeing the president’s post, managed to bolster his claim delivering a double victory to Congress by sweeping the local bodies polls in his two spheres of influence — Chamkaur Sahib and Morinda. Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjit Singh too maintained his hold on his bastion with a decisive victory over the Aam Aadmi Party in Kapurthala even as the Congress took the lead in Nawanshahar and put up a strong fight in Pathankot and Mukerian almost equalling the ruling party’s tally.…