A general election, an economic crisis and other challenges later, those concerns from the primary seem distant to residents here, who say they have grown comfortable seeing him in office.
Some people were relocated to new plots overlooking the valley; others were forced to adapt to new lives in distant cities. Residents of Tehri, a small city of 24,000, were moved to a new "model town" terraced into the Himalayan foothills, an intended showpiece of compassionate rehabilitation.
But a military dictatorship in the 1970s destroyed most of them, expelling their residents to distant suburbs.
With last year's drought not too distant a memory, some residents may be more inclined to value water supplies and open horizons.
Adverse possession, a doctrine dating back centuries, was created in part to defend residents from distant heirs who might show up with ancient claims on land.
Sadly, the poor neighborhoods send residents to distant areas where they are used to help create districts that elect representatives who then vote against the interest of those neighborhoods.
But like so many other places, it is brimming with a sense of a politics now hopelessly out of time: older people whose sense of a meaningful Labour identity is tangled up in an increasingly distant past, and younger residents who know nothing of any of this, and have little sense of the relevance of politics to their lives.
However, for residents of distant communities, it is unclear whether there was an unnecessary delay in visiting a health facility, as the time may have been spent receiving necessary first aid before being transferred to the CEmOC facility.
Of the Mexican total, 45percentt were immediate family members of persons who had already qualified for legal residence; another 40percentt were more distant relatives of legal U.S. residents, most of whom had to wait 15 years or more to have their papers processed, paying regular fees to government agencies to keep them pending.
The concern is that gentrification will simply move such problems – and residents – to a distant, possibly even grimmer locale.
