Rukum, August 25 Locals of Rukum, who have been demonstrating for the last 16 days to include the district in province no 5, have withdrawn their protest programme from today. United Rukum Protest Committee has rolled back the protest programme saying that the daily life of district dwellers had been affected due to the long strikes. The committee said that other pressure programme would be continued in the district. According to coordinator Tek Bahadur Pun of the committee, a signature collection campaign in all the VDCs, interaction programme at the district level, among others, would be launched.