He was the grandson of Sardar Maha Singh, second chief of the Sukerchakia Misl and Rajmata Raj Kaur.
Sardar Ran Singh, third chief of the Nakai Misl and Sardarni Karmo Kaur were his maternal grandparents.
He was the younger brother of Kharak Singh who succeeded their father as the second Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
In 2020 Sandeep Singh Sukerchakia, his descendant, wrote a detailed letter to Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India insisting the inclusion of Punjabi Language in the New Jammu and Kashmir official Language Bill of 2020.
In 2021, he appealed to Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan to have a thorough probe into the incident of vandalism of the statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.