You have to put a column name(s) after the select keyword in mysql, it seems the "26-Nov-2014" is a value not a column name.
But if the "26-Nov-2014" is your column name then try this.
private static String fetchQuery = "select \'?\' from tracker where serialNo = ?"
then
ps.setString(1,"26-Nov-2014");
ps.setString(2,"1");
If it doesn't work try to hardcode and test.
private static String fetchQuery = "select \'26-Nov-2014\' from tracker where serialNo = 1"
and comment out
// ps.setString(1,"26-Nov-2014");
// ps.setString(2,"1");
If it still doesn't work, try to run the query directly on database.