Kumar

MEMORANDUM **

Ranjit Kumar, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility finding and a denial of asylum and will uphold the IJ’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244-45 (9th Cir.2000). As the parties are familiar with *238 the facts, procedural history, and arguments, we will not recount them here. We deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding because Ku-mar’s testimony was inconsistent and contained implausibilities. For example, Ku-mar claimed that he was an active member of the Bharitya Ganda Janta Party (“BJP”) until 1996, but from 1994 to 1996, he lived in Ludhiana, two hours from Phagwara where he purportedly was active. Moreover, he could not describe the BJP’s main goals, other than keeping India united. Kumar claimed that he was persecuted by the police for having information regarding Sikh terrorists, yet…