13. The Harijan Movement led by Mahatma Ji, however right, laudable and the need of the hour, is still being looked upon with suspicion as aiming at strengthening the Hindu majority rather than seeking to abolish untouchability all round. The Harijans simple and oppressed as they are of ages, cannot assert themselves, as the Muslims or the Sikhs do. If their untouchability is to continue in free India and is not abolished by law, and is left to the mere preaching of the sweet reformers, they will be no more than mere dupes in the hands of the Hindus of the vested interests-type people.