patna the patna high court on wednesday refused to review its october 4 order and ruled that the urban local bodies ulbs elections in bihar may be held with seats reserved for extremely backward classes ebcs only after the report of a survey to be conducted by the statutory commission concerned a division bench of chief justice sanjay karol and justice s kumar gave a judicial nod to an undertaking submitted by the state government for conferring powers for conducting a survey on political backwardness of ebcs in bihar and preparation of a corresponding report to an existing ebc commissionthe court cautioned the state government to strictly adhere to the tests laid down by the supreme court while ascertaining political backwardness of ebcs in the state earlier the same division bench held that political backwardness contemplated while giving 22 reservation to ebcs had been wrongly confused with the social and educational backwardness the court had found that the government failed in two out of the three tests laid down by the apex court in the 2010 k krishnamurti case the division bench on october 4 had declared the quotas for ebcs in the ulb polls as illegal and held that fresh polls be held only by renotifying the reserved seats as those belonging to the general category the state government later filed a review petition