Singh

MEMORANDUM ***

Ram Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. Because the transitional rules apply, we have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a). See Movsisian v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1095, 1096 (9th Cir.2005). We review for substantial evidence, see Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir.2000), and will uphold the decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s and IJ’s decisions. Even if we were to assume Singh established past persecution on account of an enumerated ground based on the 1990 incident with police, substantial evidence supports the conclusion that conditions have changed in India such that *853 Singh no longer has a well-founded fear of persecution. See Gonzalez-Hernandez, 336 F.3d 995 , 1000-01 (9th Cir.2003) (upholding a denial of asylum based on changed country conditions where the agency rationally construed…