Mumbai, May 30 -- Employees at some of India's top audit and consulting companies were this week surprised to see they were denied access to the websites of the 'Cockroach Janta Party', or CJP, a mock political party, through their office intranet.

Multiple mid- and senior-level executives at the India offices of PwC, KPMG, and Deloitte told Mint that they were unable to access via company servers two websites associated with the CJP. They spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Mint has reviewed screenshots of the blocked websites. Websites of other mainstream parties were accessible on the firms' networks, according to executives Mint interviewed.

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