P Chidambaram will have an interactive session on Monday with the ruling United Progressive Alliance MPs.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has called the first general-body meeting of member MPs next week to familiarise them with the details of the agricultural and social sector "policy initiatives and budgetary allocations" made in the coalition''s maiden budget, Congress sources said.

Prime minister Manmohan Singh, too, would address the meeting, they said. The sources, however, were not sure whether the MPs of the Left parties — which are not part of the alliance but extend outside support to the government — were invited.

A detailed briefing on the budget proposals was considered necessary to convey the right message about the Congress-led Centre''s resolve to give a new deal to people in rural areas who were "neglected" over the past few years, the sources said.

"The budget has laid down clear directions about its (UPA government''s) pro-farmer and pro-poor priorities," said a Congress leader associated with the preparation of the party''s poll manifesto and the alliance''s common minimum programme.

"We want this message to reach the vast majority of people who have voted for a change and expect the new government to deliver on their expectations," the leader added.