Directions: Given below is a passage followed by a question. Select the option that best answers the question.

Passage:  With the rise in the release of obnoxious gases, polluting the micro-climate adversely, a group of vigilant people, protested against the factory located on the outskirts of that town. The factory owner, being a rich man, bought his way into silencing the protest. But some protesters kept on pestering him, so he played a devious game. He spread the word around that the protests may lead him to shut the factory down and the innocent workers forming the majority of the town would have to go jobless. This created an upheaval in the public of the town with the protesters being suppressed by the public itself.

Which of the following is the most suitable implication from the passage?