NEW DELHI: The Modi dispensation has learnt lessons from the near washout of the monsoon session and instructed its MPs in both the Houses not to “get trapped” by the Opposition provocations as retaliation may lead to adjournments and prevent passage of key bills in the ongoing winter session. BJP sources said parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu and other senior ministers of the government have told party MPs to practise restraint and “stay quiet” when the Congress, Left and TMC members try to corner the Modi regime through remarks that may annoy them.“Our MPs in both the Houses have been instructed that they should work hard to ensure Parliament functions. The message is not to get provoked or get trapped by the Opposition into joining issue that may lead to repeated adjournments and delay in legislative business,” a senior minister said. The monsoon session had been a bitter experience for the government as the Opposition pushed it on the backfoot on the Vyapam and Lalit Modi controversies and demanded the resignation of external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj , Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and her MP counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan.Congress had been in the forefront of the onslaught and its aggressive stance in the Lok Sabha — where it has only 40-odd MPs — had led to the suspension of 25 of its members for five days. As a result of this confrontation between the government and the Opposition, crucial legislative business had suffered. While the goods and services tax bill could not be passed, pushing the government on the brink of missing the April 1, 2016, deadline, other important bills were sent to select committees of the Rajya Sabha as the Opposition — which outnumbers the NDA — prevailed over the ruling party.“This time we do not want any provocations and however much the opposition tries, our MPs have been asked not to cross a certain limit while confronting them. The PM himself has struck a conciliatory note by stating during the debate on the Making of the Constitution that consensus and not majority is the way Pa rl i a m e n t should function,” another senior minister said. Modi also broke from his usual practice of keeping the Opposition at a distance when he held the first structured dialogue with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former PM Manmohan Singh over tea on the GST bill on November 27.“The aim is to let Opposition have its say and the government have its way in this session,” the minister said. The real estate bill is also in rough weather as TN is opposed to it. The NDA is in talks with all parties to see this bill as well as other pending legislation through in this session.