 Even though his favourite Rani was from the house of the Nakais; the relationship between Sukerchakkias and Nakais remained rocky.After Ranjit Singh had declared himself a Maharaja in 1801 after consolidating majority of the Misls, this ambitious chief had been eyeing the Nakai territory.He spared it till the death of Sardar Gyan Singh in 1807, but soon after suggested Sardar Kahan Singh, who succeeded his father, to join the Darbar at Lahore, which the proud newly crowned Nakai chief steadily refused.