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YOUNG CHRONICLE

November 28th , 2014

Governor’s Rule in J&K
Rambo and Pranks were quite kicked when the Jammu and Kashmir elections took place. They had studied the
history of Jammu and Kashmir in depth and shared their understanding of
the entire situation in Kashmir, in a previous issue of The Young Chronicle.
They had also closely monitored the election results and compared them
with the previous election results. But now, they are quite surprised at the
delay in the formation of the government.
If you look up the archives of The Young Chronicle, you would see that the
Peoples’ Development Party and the BJP had won
28 and 25 seats respectively; and the National

Mr. Omar Abdullah

Conference and the Congress Party won 15 and 12 seats respectively. To get a majority
and form a government, 44 seats are needed, and this can only happen if the PDP and
BJP join hands and form what is called a collation government.
This collation however, seems to be taking time. In the interim period, till the new
government is formed, Omar Abdullah (The last Chief Minister) has been asked to
continue to act as a ‘Caretaker’ Chief Minister. Omar Abdullah had happily agreed, but
since he has no real powers now, he feels it would be unfair to stay as a ‘Caretaker’ when
Jammu and Kashmir has border tensions and winter to deal with. He feels, the state

Mr. N. N. Vohra

needs a real leader ‘with powers’.

To convey his views, he visited the governor of J&K, Mr. N.N. Vohra, yesterday. Mr. Omar Abdullah asked Mr.
Vohra to relieve him of the responsibility of being the caretaker CM.

Rambo and Pranks were very worried for Jammu and Kashmir. They wondered what would happen if no one took
leadership responsibilities there. It was only when their Mumma explained that J&K would go under Governor’s rule,
were Rambo and Pranks relieved.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Retires from Test Cricket
M.S Dhoni, decided to retire from test cricket. Test Cricket is a long
format of the game, where a match lasts about 5 days. The game is
usually slow, and is not played very often these days, since people prefer
watching matches that get over in a day.
Dhoni’s retirement shocked many. The announcement was sudden, as he
had not indicated that such a decision was coming. Some people have
linked his retirement to India’s bad performance in the last Test Series
with Australia. But Dhoni claims that playing many formats of the game,
T20, One Day Matches, and Test Matches, was getting stressful and he
wanted to concentrate on the One Day Innings Matches and T20s.
Dhoni has been one of the best captains India has had. It was under his
captaincy that India rose to be the number one team in the world. His leaving even one format of
the game has shocked many.