Chennai, March 3 -- Amid the growing strains the situation and ties with the Congress continued to remain fluid over seat sharing even after senior leader and former union Minister P Chidambaram stepping in as a last ditch effort to maintain the alliance intact, the ruling DMK heading multi-party Front in Tamil Nadu allotted one Rajya Sabha seat to its new entrant, DMDK of late actor-politician Vijayakanth on Tuesday night.

A final picture on the continuance of Congres-DMK ties and whether the National Party would accept the one RS seat offer and 25 seats, would be known by tomorrow, as the filing of nominations for the biennial elections to the Upper House of Parliament from the Tamil Nadu Assembly to fill six seats, would end on March fi...