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Maran "sends" his resignation to President.

Please let me know "sends" usage is correct or it should be "sent" and please clafiy.

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It will depend on full context. Either is good usage. However, sends implies it is happening at this moment; sent would be the more usual past tense as used in a newspaper report.

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