In the United States, a top Republican leader has come out strongly against efforts to demonise India as a destination of shipping US jobs, and called for an end to such statements for political gains. Republican Senator John McCain said, outsourcing is an inescapable feature of today's global economy, not an Indian plot to steal American jobs, and the US should not condone any unfair punishments of Indian workers. In his remarks on Indo-US ties at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace last night, McCain said, America cannot allow its anxieties about globalization to cause Washington to demonize India for crass political gain. He said, on the Indian side, relations with the US cannot remain a political club, which the party out of power uses to beat up the party in power for doing exactly what it would have done were it governing. McCain said, more leaders on both sides need to speak up for this partnership, and fight harder for it, and build the public support needed to sustain our strategic priorities. Outsourcing of jobs to India was one of the major election issues in the American mid-term elections held on Tuesday.